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We ask the Chinese government for compassion.
>Today in China, over 10,000 (ten thousand) bears are kept prisoner for
>extracting bile from their gall bladders. The bears are kept in a
>horizontal position, in cages that look rather like coffins. They wear a
>metal collar and are held down by pressure bars. A catheter is introduced
>into their body that continuously absorbs the liquid from their gall
>bladders.
>The bears cannot change their position and remain in this condition of
>permanent pain between 15 and 20 years!
>We cannot accept this cruelty, torture and barbarism to continue and be 
>part
>of the life of these poor bears for another minute. With
>their paw they take some food through a little opening in the cage. To
>quench their thirst they have to stretch their tongue to lick the bars of
>their prison.
>They suffer excruciating pain as they have to stay for an average of 15
>years in the same position that deforms their bones.
>We are talking about 15 years or 180 months, or 5,475 days, or 131,400 
>hours
>or 78,844,000 minutes of continuous pain. The bile serves a
>disgusting market: it is used to produce shampoos, aphrodisiacs and other
>remedies. Much of it is illegally exported overseas and for all the uses
>there are at least 75 substitute products. During the extraction of the
>liquid, a tube is inserted in the gall bladder; one end of the tube stays
>outside the belly of the bear, linked to a machine that extracts the bile.
>The suffering of the animal exceeds the imagination:Â  the bear wishes 
>death,
>mutilates himself and tries to commit suicide.
>Between 50 and 60% of the bears die at 1/2 of their life expectancy.
>Approximately 100,000 kilos of bile are extracted each year from bears in
>China.
>For further information visit:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/702576.stm
>http://www.arkonline.com/china.htm
>To help, you just need to copy this email and sign the list below, which
>calls for the immediate end of the horrific "Bile Farms" - then send
>this message to as many people as possible. Thanks again. Once this list
>reaches 100, please send to ramona-/E9e97X2KGxwFqzsTH5u/[email protected]
>
>NUMBER - NAME - CITY - COUNTRY
>01. Anna Rigano - London - UK
>02. Neil del Strother - London - UK
>03 Steve Nobel - London - UK
>04. Rose Buxton - London - UK
>05. Nick Wood - Pembrokeshire West Wales.
>06. Ross Heaven - Northampton - UK
>07. Cheyenne Maloney - Bailey, CO - USA
>08. Miguel Matos - Coimbra - Portugal
>09. Ailie Freeland - Sydney - Australia
>10. Marina Potvin- Quebec- Canada
>11. Heidi Lavoie _ Toronto-Canada
>12. Marc Nelson-Boulder-CO-USA
>13. Darlene Turner-Vancouver-Canada
>14. Greg Bendz-Vancouver-Canada
>15. Michael Irving - Isle of Man - GB
>16. Robert Breault - California - USA
>17. David Pinkney - Oregon
>18. Carol Pinkney - Oregon
>19. Ben Bentzien - Oregon
>20. Hettienne Grobler - Cape Town, RSA
>21. Natasha Diedricks, Cape Town, RSA
>22. Anna-Marie West - Cape Town, RSA
>23. Gayo L Primic - Cape Town, RSA
>24. Rosa Pheiffer - Cape Town, RSA
>25Â  Verity Gorman - Benoni RSA
>26Â  Christina van Niekerk - Kempton Park RSA
>27Â  Judith Coertze - Kempton Park, RSA
>28Â  Riaan Coertze - Kempton Park, RSA
>29Â  Riaan Odendaal - Kempton Park , RSA
>30Â  Tasha van Heerden - Kempton Park, RSA
>31Â  Danielle Mostyn - Kempton Park, RSA
>32 Samantha Langley - Durban, RSA
>33 Beverley Hitchcox - Durban, RSA
>34 Anne Campbell-Barnard - Durban, RSA
>35 Carryn Grendon - Durban, RSA
>36 Brenda Crook - Durban, RSA
>37 Shelley Rebeck - Durban, RSA
>38 Kerry Chisholm Batten - London, UK
>39 Girvan Roberts
>40 Tina Prior
>41 Jayne Gillies - Sydney, Australia
>42 Marie Schlederer - Sydney, Australia
>43 Jayne Milner - Sydney, Australia
>44 John Hanlon - Sydney, Australia
>45 Catherine Anderson - Sydney, Australia
>46 Helen Malin - Sydney, Australia
>47 Brendan McDonald - Sydney, Australia
>48 Larissa Beavan - Sydney, Australia
>49 Rebecca Hurst - Sydney, Australia
>50 Ilya levy - Sydney Australia
>51 Donna King - Sydney Australia
>52 Lisa Simmons - Sydney Australia
>53.Ann Barnett - Sydney Australia
>54.Sue Gibbons - Sydney Australia
>55.Adele Byers - Sydney Australia
>56. Ivor Davies - New South Wales Australia
>57.Julie McRae - New South Wales Australia
>58.Tracey Gurney - New South Wales Australia
>59.Nicole Zofrea - New South Wales Australia
>60.Karen Bakker- Sydney Australia
>61.Val Byers - New South Wales Australia
>62.Scott Byers - New South Wales Australia
>63. Siobhan Byers - New South Wales Australia
>64. Belinda Barton Sydney Australia
>65. Debra Barton Sydney Australia
>66. Lawrence Bucciol Sydney Australia
>67. Rae Crawford Sydney Australia
>68. Lucia Di Giacomo Sydney Australia
>69. Dianne Profilio Sydney Australia
>70. Richard Hall - Sydney Australia
>71. Jane Milton - Sydney Australia
>72. Sylvia MacRitchie - Sydney Australia
>73. Nigel Hook - Sydney Australia
>74. Karen McCreadie - Sydney Australia
>75. Sally Gibson - San Francisco USA
>76. Sascha Kurtz - Brisbane Australia
>77. Justine O'Brien - Brisbane Australia
>78. Nick Bestevaar - Brisbane, Australia
>79. Phoebe Hart - Brisbane, Australia
>80. Rachael Gibson - Brisbane Australia
>81. Elizabeth Punch - Sydney Australia
>82. Torunn Higgins - Sydney Australia
>83. Laura Medway  - Sydney, Australia
>84. Emily Mitterhuemer - Sydney, Australia
>85. Marisa Mitterhuemer - Sydney Australia
>86. Lorraine Sumners - Sydney, Australia
>87. Andrew Chauvel - Sydney, Australia
>88. Dudley Cole_- Sydney, Australia
>89. Helen Sheppard – Devon, England
>90. Rikki Robinson – Devon, England
>91. Sandhy Robinson-Jones – Devon, England
>92. David Dugmore - Maun Botswana
>93. Rosemary Jackson, London, England
>94.  Robin Russell, Woburn, England
>95 Andrew Bedford, Woburn, England
>96 Philip Woodhouse, Stansted, England
>97 David Kelly, Hawkhurst, England
>98 Sanjeev Khanna,Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania
99 Anish M Sawjiani, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
100 Manoj Phulphagar, Poona, India
101 Noor Chishti,Pune,India


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